Name: A Different Kind Of Light by Site Nonsite in Joyful Union Select 070
Duration: 5 min 40 s
Description: Lead single from Osaka, the third EP in my Japanese cities series. This track is a theme for a city so big that its edges are blurred, with a downtown that fizzes with sci-fi intensity. The track bathes in the neon that illuminates with an effervescence reflecting the cultural uniqueness of Osakans.

70th installment of the Joyful Union Select series.

Tracks by Honeymakr, Robanzee, Albyrd, Antoje, Not399093, and more.

Joyful Union Select 070

In loving memory of Neil Macarthur Owen
1956 — 2023

Eastern Nurseries no. 31

Hasfeldt & Burning Pyre - Conversation

Lead single from Osaka, the third EP in my Japanese cities series. This track is a theme for a city so big that its edges are blurred, with a downtown that fizzes with sci-fi intensity. The track bathes in the neon that illuminates with an effervescence reflecting the cultural uniqueness of Osakans.

A Different Kind of Light

A Different Kind Of Light

FUNKS SELECIONADOS

corredor

Vodkadanslaru

SAMOSH!T DELUXE

FLUX

The Universe Will Take Care Of You

Under Tangled Silence

Unweaving

Question Mark

Full tracklist: https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-300-barker

Fresh from Stochastic Drift, Barker’s buzzing second album named Bleep Record of the Month alongside an exclusive 12”, Barker sends a mix that really digs deep into the unique sonic methodology he has constructed across his solo career width a suitable breadth for what is also a milestone in the series, Bleep Mix #300.

From Debiasing to Utility to Stochastic Drift, Barker has been reimagining club music without its definitive thump, instead driven by melody and tactile synthesis, and this selection of tracks expands Barker’s soundworld with a host of artists walking a similar path. “For this mix, I picked out some of my favourite uptempo ambient tracks, recorded at home with two decks and a mixer. It’s music I've used in a lot of different contexts, as a DJ and listener, and I hope you enjoy it.”

Though the occasional dancefloor thump makes itself known, such as on Adriana Lopez’ ‘What Lies Behind’, it’s mostly in quaking subs rather than actual four to the floor, providing some ground for this mix’s airy freeform variety to fly over. We have the wooden plunks and seaspray of Afefe Iku’s Kenyan island sound, the wonky gamelan of Tyler Friedman’s maze of bells and chimes, the dense atmosphere of shaker-produced rain and electrical chirps forged deep in the ruins of The Future Sound Of London.

The midsection of this mix contains some magic in particular: the maestro of drumless trance Lorenzo Senni creates motion from pure jagged synth energy on ‘The Power of Failing’, dissolving into the aether of an unreleased Barker track, which further discharges into the kaleidoscopic stutters of Caribou’s ‘Never Come Back’ with jubilant piano chords and vocal clips wrought into a glitchy, swirling maelstrom of Koreless' prickly warmth. Digital Justice’s ‘Theme From It’s All Gone Pearshaped’ follows, a timeless staple for anyone wishing to dabble in melodic motion and synthsmithery, or any DJ set seeking to add some lift without losing momentum, of which this mix is in no short supply.

Bleep Mix #300 - Barker

Six years since his last album, the peerless electronic and club producer Djrum returns with “Under Tangled Silence” - marking the release with a rare guest mix on NTS. 
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/djrum-1st-may-2025

Djrum 010525

Andrea - Living Room

A1. Timeline
A2. Areusure
A3. Lorraa
B1. Reactions
B2. Texture End
B3. Night Zoom
C1. Testify
C2. Streamline
C3. Olderback
D1. Gesagt
D2. Pure Morning
D3. Impress

Andrea's third album "Living Room" is a delicate blend of spacious and reflective sounds, unfolding a sonic trip from familiar corners to distant skies.

Written & produced by Andrea
Mixed by Stefano Genta
Mastered by Tangible Air
Cover photo by Cordula Kasiske
Distributed by Phantom Distribution
Published by Ilian Tape Publishing


ITLP21 ANDREA - LIVING ROOM

In the final month of 2024, Meitei arrived in Beppu, a city long steeped in vapor, myth, and mineral memory, invited to create Onsen (hot spring) music commemorating the city’s 100th anniversary through sound. Known for his Lost Japan (Shitsu-nihon) works, which weave together vanished eras with the ambient residue of the past, Meitei took residence in the warehouse of Yamada Bessou, a century-old inn perched near the bay.

Over two weeks, Meitei listened to steam, stone, and history. The resulting work, Sen’nyū, traces the spirit of onsen culture. Like water seeking its path, the music unfolded with natural inevitability, shaped by Meitei’s synesthetic sensibility and deep reverence for place. Equipped with a microphone, he ventured into Beppu’s famed sites: Takegawara Onsen, Bouzu Jigoku, Hebin-yu, and the private baths of Yamada Bessou — capturing bubbling earth, hissing vents, wind over bamboo, and the voices of regular visitors. These field recordings became the bones of the composition, an attempt to sonify even the rising mist and subtle temperature shifts felt on the skin.

Sen’nyū unfolds as a single, continuous piece. Meitei’s score moves like fog through sulfur and stone, traversing the veiled madness of Bouzu Jigoku, the spectral hum of Yamada Bessou’s inner bath, and the voices and atmosphere of Takegawara Onsen. At its heart is a gesture of quiet reverence — for water’s patience, for the land’s memory, and for the hands that have bathed here across generations.

Meitei has always expressed his own views on things and events that are self-evident to the Japanese people but are now perceived as subtle impressions. On this occasion, however, he does not create music based on his own unique themes of Japan. Instead, he launches music into the world that has been created in actual places of Japan, music that can be felt with the hands.

During the project, Meitei also conceived a two-day public sound installation at Takegawara Onsen, culminating in a live performance on the final day. Bathers immersed themselves in hot spring water while listening to the piece through speakers embedded inside the bathhouse — a ritual fusion of body, place, and sound.

The album marks Meitei’s first work centered entirely on onsen, and also introduces a new phase of his Lost Japan project under the title “失日本百景” (One Hundred Lost Views of Japan) — a series focused on existing places of longing, still breathing within contemporary Japan. Alongside the album, Meitei will release his first-ever photo book, a visual documentation of this journey. A new layer is added to the world he has built through sound alone until now.

Sen’nyū continues Meitei’s devotion to Japan as subject, while opening new terrain: both ritual and remembrance, an immersion into the mineral soul of Beppu.

The album will be released on 25 July 2025 on 180g LP and CD, with mastering by Stephan Mathieu.


Sen'nyū - Yon-no-yu

Nottingham Contemporary and NTS present Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen, a special broadcast reflecting the themes and work featured in the associated group exhibition and live programme which "considers how sound travels and transitions through cross-cultural identities, histories, and futures." 

Featuring contributions from curator Andrea Zarza Canova, and artists Satch Hoyt, Raheel Khan, Dylan Robinson, Zahra Malkani, Bhavisha Panchia & John Peffer, Arturo Kameya, and Hong-Kai Wang.  
Find the full tracklist and related episodes on NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/nottingham-contemporary/episodes/nottingham-contemporary-30th-may-2025

NTS x Nottingham Contemporary: Your Ears Later Will Know to Listen 300525

Sen'nyū

Sen'nyū - Go-no-yu

“Eerily beautiful experimental compositions” (Electronic Sound mag)

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